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This is such a sensitive topic for many PlayBook owners — and rightfully so. As a fellow BlackBerry lover, a respectable level of sympathy should be given to those who have invested in BlackBerry's only tablet. It is truly a remarkable device that had a lot of promise.
However, business will always be business no matter what opinions or emotional attachment we may have for our products. It's...

Now that the BlackBerry PlayBook is officially done with (for real this time), many users are left wondering what their best option for a tablet may be.
In fact, the first email I read this morning was from my older brother, asking me what tablet he should replace his PlayBook with. And reading through the CrackBerry forums shortly after, I came across this thread where the question was posed...

If you thought all the fun of the BlackBerry PlayBook had worn off, think again. The latest discovery shows off the BlackBerry Hub on the PlayBook running over Bridge. The pseudo-Hub appears on the PlayBook after opening a hyperlinked email address on BBM over bridge. All of the accounts from the device are shown, however it doesn't go much beyond that.
Sadly you can't do much more than...

Woah. So just as BlackBerry is going through a major transition, there are already rumors starting to fly around the interwebs about a BlackBerry PlayBook 2 -- a mythical BlackBerry 10 tablet that is nowhere in sight. We know well that with Thorsten Heins at the reins BlackBerry had no intention of rehashing the PlayBook with an updated tablet or bringing BlackBerry 10 to a tablet at all. He...

If you've got a spare BlackBerry PlayBook just lying around, Halloween is a great time to put it to good use. Last year I used mine to play a creepy video in my front window, but this year we're kicking things up a notch or ten.
I've never been a good pumpkin carver so my Jack O'Lanterns haven't always been the greatest, but thanks to my trusty PlayBook, this year I'm going to make some awesome...

If you thought the BlackBerry PlayBook wasn't going to see any more updates, TELUS is here to tell you otherwise. They're rolling out OS 2.1.0.1753 for the 4G LTE PlayBook today to bring along a few fixes and enhancements.
The update includes the following changes:
Enabled personal data encryption.
Support for portrait views in Messages, Calendar and Contacts apps
Various bug fixes...

All PlayBook owners can rejoice today as BlackBerry Bridge has been updated to version 3.2.0.8 - bringing full support to BlackBerry 10 devices. Although long overdue, those of us that are still rocking our PlayBooks can now at least get the full features we were used to having on legacy devices.
These features include the use of BBM on the PlayBook (the perfect weekend for it) as well as using...

What the?!
As if the leaked Playbook OS wasn't enough, it (oddly) appears that there is an official update for the BlackBerry PlayBook today as well. As spotted in the CrackBerry forums, the update is to 2.1.0.1753 and looks to bring some small fixes including an Adobe Flash security update. It's sitting at 396MB so it should have more than a few tweaks packed inside but most likely no major...

It is, it isn't. It is, it isn't.
At this point we really have no clue if we'll see BlackBerry 10 for the PlayBook. We heard months ago that it could be coming to the BlackBerry PlayBook at some point, but it's been very hush hush ever since. Even at BlackBerry Live we heard not a peep about BlackBerry 10 on the PlayBook.
As the rumors continue to fly, even the official BlackBerry Mexico...

With the new BlackBerry Z10, one of the awesome features (if you want to call it that) is that you can not only download apps from BlackBerry World, but also sideload Android applications. We first saw this on the BlackBerry PlayBook and it helps broaden the app spectrum to give us more apps to choose from to fill the "app gap".
Now I know not everyone is up for sideloading and of course we don'...

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